Critical reflections on several important practical points relative to the cataract : comprehending an account of a new and successful method of couching particular species of that disease / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Critical reflections on several important practical points relative to the cataract : comprehending an account of a new and successful method of couching particular species of that disease / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of all which requisite information many of our predecessors seem to have been utterly destitute; it has also detected one very er- roneous and mischievous opinion, enter- tained by the old surgeons, respecting the anterior and posterior chambers of the aque- ous humour. These practitioners, more bigoted to the chimerical dreams of fancy, than solicitous to take the right road to ac- curate information, conceived that, behind the uvea and pupil, there was a space, oc- cupied by the aqueous humour, at least equal in capacity to the space betwixt the cornea and iris, and that the couching needle might be passed directly across it with the most innocent effect. Woolhouse, a famous English oculist at the commencement of the eighteenth century, even maintained, in a presumptuous manner, that the posterior chamber was of larger dimensions than the anterior. Fr* Petit, Morgagni, Heister, Winslow,